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Three months after a corner of their apartment building collapsed in a nearly catastrophic gas explosion, residents of a Bronx public housing complex say life is mostly back to normal — aside from an ongoing cooking gas outage and lingering traumatic memories.
An Oct. 1 boiler explosion destroyed the southwest corner of a 20-story building at the Mitchel Houses on Alexander Avenue, near 137th Street. The eruption, sparked by the building’s boiler, cast bricks and debris from an entire section of the building to the ground below…